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Cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States
The best contemporaneous measure from the 1860 U.S. Census shows roughly one-third of white Southern families held enslaved people: historians and reference sources commonly cite that about 30–37 perc...
The geography of slavery in 1860 was uneven: the Deep/Lower South concentrated the largest share of enslaved people and the highest household ownership rates, the Upper/Middle South held sizeable but ...
The 1860 U.S. census enumerated roughly 3.95 million people held in bondage — most commonly reported as 3,953,760 or rounded to about 3.9 million . Those enslaved people were unevenly distributed by s...
Clear, comprehensive state-by-decade counts of Black women who owned enslaved people do not exist in the surviving published datasets; historians can point to overall counts of free Black slaveowners ...
Southern Democrats were the principal congressional bloc resisting major civil‑rights legislation in the 1960s: they largely opposed early federal measures in 1957–60, mounted a prolonged Senate filib...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) expanded sharply across U.S. campuses in 2025, but ; reporting instead highlights pockets of rapid growth at specific schools and states after the organization’s high-profile...
interactive site documents and maps them by county . Public reporting and EJI materials in the packet name specific Ohio counties and describe the kinds of records and memorial materials the map links...
The simplest, defensible answer is that the mean number of enslaved people per in 1860 was roughly — about 3.95 million enslaved people divided by roughly 394,000 recorded slaveholders, yielding an av...
Southern states as a region resisted the both politically and rhetorically: several legislatures rejected ratification in 1919–1920, only a few approved it on the initial roll call, and others decline...
ICE arrests surged nationally in 2025, with advocacy analyses showing averages exceeding 1,000 arrests per day during peak periods and a marked shift toward community “at-large” arrests outside jails ...